RM> 07 Jul 2016 10:00, from Joe Delahaye -> Richard Menedetter:
JD>>> My BBS machine is part of the network. All of my connected JD>>> networked systems have an internal (at least) ipv6 address, JD>>> including the Router. RM>> With internal you mean one starting with fe80? JD> No they all start with 2607
RM> Ah ok ... so they are global addresses. RM> FE80 is the prefix for link-local addresses.
As another data point, on my network, the link local address is the default gateway for IPv6. I found this one out when I had issues setting up static IP addresses and noticed that the router's link local address was the default gateway on autoconfigured machines.